Apparatus for removing bark from standing trees.



PATBNTED JULY 28 W..P. KIDDER; v-

APPARATUS POR REMOVING BARK FROM STANDING TREES.

APPLICATION I'HED 00Tg4, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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Viel/f l UNITED STATES Patentedl .Tiny-2e, 1903.

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wELLiNGTON PARKER RIDDER, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To FRANK H. GOODYEAR AND GEORGE E. MATTHEWS, TRUSTEES, OE

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPARATUS FORREMOVING BARK FROM STANDING TREES.v

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,565, dated July 28, 1903. Application led October 4, 1902. Serial No. 126.000. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WELLINGTON PARKER KIDDER', a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Use in Removing Bark nfrom Standing Trees, of which the following is a specil is best of wire rope.

fication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a tree to which is attached a seat capable of being raised and lowered and also a barksplitting implement. Fig. 2 is a view of the bark-splitter.

In my United States Patent No. 707,428, of August 19, 1902, and inmy application, Serial No. 125,998, of even date herewith, I have set forth apparatus for use in removing bark from standing trees and the desirability and advantages of removing bark from standing trees instead of removing bark from felled trees, as heretofore.

The object of my present invention is to produce an apparatus in which the operator may sit, and alsoa bark-splitter which is carried bysaid apparatus and is under the manual control of the operator, the apparatus and operator being lifted by power up the standing-tree trunk and lowered by hand or` otherwise, if desired.

In the drawings, T represents the standingtree trunk; 1, a trunk-clamp of any desired construction for supporting a tackle, comprising, say, any suitable upper pulley-block 2 and lower pulley-block 3 and fall 4, which The lower pulley-block 3 supportsthe seat 5, the opposite ends thereof being provided with upward sides 6, which are attached conveniently by the loop 7 to the lower tackle-block. On the sides there is secured a belt 8, provided at its front with suitable fasteners .9, so that the operator sitting on the seat may fasten the belt around his waist and be Securely held in the seat. The tackle conveniently, by means of the hook 10, supports a chain 11, the lower end of which is fast to the upper end of the hookshaped bark-splitter (or other rossing imple- .on one side of the shank and the ment) 12. The Shank of this splitter or rossing implement 12 is provided with a pair of 5o transverse handles 13, one handle projecting other haudleprojecting on the other side of the shank,-

so that when the operator is in the seat and is being lifted up the tree-trunk he may,by a5 manual control of the handles 13 13, maintain the bark-stripper properly in place with its point between the wood and bark. The operator is thus relieved from the work of supporting the weight and resistance of the 6o bark stripper or splitter or Whatever other rossing instrument may be carried by the tackle, and he is free to properly manipulate the implement by means of the handles 13.

It may be that in practice a single handle rather than two handles, as shown, will be all that will be desired aud'that the handle may be otherwise placed on the implement 12 than is here shown.

I do not claim herein reither the trunk- 7o clamp or, broadly, any pneumatic arrangement, for the same is shown in my application7 Serial No. 125,998, of even date herewith.

The belt 8 is preferably provided on its outer side with a pneumatic-tube support 15, l

through which the pneumatic tube 16- of the pneumatic tool 17 is carried. A hook 17, fast on the side 6, serves to support the pneumatic tool 17 when the 'same is not in use by the person sitting in the seat. If desired and 8o preferably, the seat is provided with shoulder-straps 19, one for each shoulder, so as to better secure the operator in place. The purpose of having the pneumatic tube 1.6 supported by the seat is to relieve the occupant of the seat from the great weight of the pipe when, for example, the operator is forty or fifty or sixty or more feet above the ground, the pneumatic tube leading back to a suitable air-compressor.

1. In apparatus for removing bark from standing trees, thev combination `-of a treeclamp; fall and tackle vlsupported by said clamp; seat raised and lowered by the fall and tackle;

and bark-operating apparatus carried by the fall and tackle; and having a In testimony whereof I aix my signature handle above the seat. in presence of two witnesses.

2. In apparatus for removing bark from ,a T H 1 standing trees, the combination of a pulleyl LILUNGION MLKLR KIDDLR' 5 block and rossing implement supported there- Vtuesses 011; and L man-supporuinp,r seat supported by l E. A. ALLEN, said pul1ey-block- M.' E. CovENEY. 

